Fantastical Facts About Illegal Immigrants

A list of ten scary "facts" about illegal immigrants has been making its way around the blogosphere. For example, Scary Fact #2 claims that "95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens." Scary indeed, and, apparently, completely made up.

The list left the staff at the Los Angeles Times scratching their heads, since they are the purported source of the facts, yet have been unable to find any Times articles backing up any of the claims. The list of scary factoids is dissected in detail on their new "immigration" blog:

http://opinion.latimes.com/immigration/2006/05/according_to_th.html